Tag: wine

This is one of my favourite things to eat in the world. I make a risotto two, three times a month and I always enjoy both cooking and eating it. I really like the creamy arborio rice and if you decide to make this dish, please use arborio and not jasmin or any other rice variety. Arborio is the one to use, because it will give you this creamy, starchy texture.

Ingredients:

2 Tbsp butter

1 Tbsp olive oil

1/2 onion

2 cloves garlic

1 stalk celery

1 cup broccoli, divided into small florets

1 1/3 cup arborio rice

2 cups chicken stock

1 cup dry white wine

1/2 cup grated parmesan

1/2 tsp nutmeg

1/2 tsp cayenne pepper

salt & pepper

Place butter and oil in a pan. Set the heat to medium. Mince the onion and garlic and add to the pan. Chop celery into very tiny pieces and add to the pan.

Divide broccoli into small florets and add to the pan. Stir and add dry arborio rice. Let it fry until you see that it is slowly becoming translucent.

Add wine, stir and cook until the wine has been absorbed. Add chicken stock and let cook for another 10 minutes or so. Keep an eye on the dish and if you see that it has absorbed all of the liquid but the rice is still too hard to eat, add more stock or even hot water if you have no more stock.

Add salt, pepper, nutmeg and cayenne pepper. Once the rice is soft enough to eat add parmesan, stir, and serve.

This recipe can be made with both rosé and white sparkling wine. I came up with the idea when I opened a bottle of sparkling rosé and it turned out that I was the only one who liked it. Drinking a whole bottle of wine alone is not really the best thing to do on a random Wednesday night, so I used the leftover for this recipe. It does not reduce the alcohol content but at least you can say you’re eating dessert…

If you’re planning to make this for some special event, keep in mind that it takes a good while to set, that’s why I put the recipe in the ‘Overnight’ category.

Ingredients:

2 cups sparkling wine

1/4 cup sugar

1 cup water

4 leaves gelatine

Pour the wine into a bowl and place gelatine leaves in the wine.

While the leaves are softening, pour the water into a small saucepan and add sugar. Put on high heat, stir to dissolve the sugar and allow to start boiling. Once the water has boiled, transfer the gelatine leaves from the wine to the water and whisk to dissolve all of the gelatine. Do not get disheartened, all of it will get dissolved. Once that is done, pour the water, gelatine, sugar mixture into the wine and stir to combine.

Pour into glasses and place in the fridge to set. Let it stand for minimum 8 hours.